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Topic: Random and Amazing Pictures, Please!

I used to use an activity like that to show my students how the media and special interest groups can be telling scientific truths about subjects while still being misleading. www.dhmo.org (and hey, .org so it must be a real agency!)

The photographer said "The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?"